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United States Patent O LIQUID COR/EESTEBLE DlSlENSING CABINET WITH CGLENG MEANS Carl A. Gran, Arlington Heights, Ill., assigner to Magi- Pak Corporation, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Delaware Filed Apr. 27, 1964, Ser. No. 362,697 6 Claims. (Cl. 222-146) This invention relates to a liquid dispenser and, more particularly, to a device for storing and dispensing refrigerated liquid comestibles, such as milk, fruit juices and the like.

This application is an improvement over my copending application, Serial No. 60,150, filed on October 3, 1960, and now issued as Patent No. 3,139,219. In said copending application, there is disclosed, among other things, an improved combination that broadly includes cabinet means that denes a cooling chamber with an access door therefor, and with a valved container of comestibles within the cooling chamber, and with a push-button type valve actuator carried by the access door and adapted for cooperation with the valve on the container for effecting selective dispensing of liquid from the container within the cooling chamber to a receptacle outside the cooling chamber.

The valved container means as it is specifically disclosed in the said copending application, Serial No. 60,150, has certain drawbacks in that all metal containers have a high weight/volume ratio, and are relatively expensive, either initially as when 4made of stainless steel, or upon reconditioning as when the metal is tinned or coated.

Similarly, the cabinet means as it is specifically disclosed in the said copending application has limited storage capacity and a design that limits its utility.

Thus, one object of this invention is to provide an improved liquid dispenser which combines refrigerated cabinet means of improved utility and capacity and valved container means of simplified re-useable construction, where the cabinet means and container means are coordinated in design and arrangement to produce an irnproved and desirable combination for the storage, cooling, and dispensing of liquid comestibles of the type that require, or desirably utilize, refrigeration.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved arrangement for a liquid dispenser, wherein cabinet means provide for improved storage of bulk containers in a cooling chamber at two levels with the container at the upper level projecting forwardly relative to the container at the lower level, and with 'the cabinet means, including its access door, shaped and arranged to economically limit the size of the chamber to be cooled while simultaneously providing both for unobtrusive storage of certain refrigeration components exteriorly of the cabinet in the rear of the upper level, and for arrangement of a liquid receiving station to receive gravity discharge of liquid through the access door and below the overhang of said upper level.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a liquid dispenser with rack means therein for accurately positioning a valved container within the cooling chamber of the liquid dispenser so that the discharge valve of the liquid container may be selectively actuated through the access door for the liquid dispenser so as to selectively dispense liquid under gravity through a discharge opening provided in the access door.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved liquid dispenser which is compact and can hold substantially more liquid comestibles for a given area of counter space than previous comparable liquid dispensers.

3,237,819 Patented Mar. l, 1966 ICC Further objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent as the following description proceeds and the features of novelty which characterize this invention will be pointed out with particularity in claims annexed to and forming part of this specification.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective View of a liquid dispenser embodying the features of the present invention;

FlGURE 2 is a longitudinal cross section View of the liquid dispenser taken on line 2-2 of FIGURE 1 and illustrating the overhang positioning of containers therein;

FIGURE 3 is a cross section view through the cabinet means of the liquid dispenser taken generally along the line 3-3 of FIGURE 2, with the containers being omitted for purposes of clarity;

FIGURE 4 is a front view of the interior of the cabinet means and is taken generally along the line 4--4 of FIGURE 2;

FIGURE 5 is a perspective View of the cabinet means of a modified form of liquid dispenser embodying principles of the present invention; and

FIGURE 6 is .a front View of the interior of the cabinet means of the modified liquid dispenser taken generally along the line 6 6 of FIGURE 5.

Referring now to the drawings, there is illustrated in FlGURE 1 a liquid dispenser indicated generally at 10, which is adapted to be mounted on a suitable support, as for example, a countertop in a home. The dispenser 10 includes an open-sided cabinet 12 which may .be selectively opened and closed by a complementary access door 14. The access door 14 is arranf'ed to swing about a vertical axis by means of hinges 15 secured at one edge to the cabinet 12. The opposite edge of the door 14 carries a pivotally mounted clamp-type lock lever 16 which may be of any well known type adapted to cooperate with an abutment or hasp 18 carried by cabinet 12.

Sealing gasket means 19 are provided between the door 14 and the cabinet 12. Such gasket means include a rst gasket 20 mounted peripherally on the forwardly facing edge of the cabinet 12 and a second gasket 22 mounted 4peripherally on the rearwardly facing Wall of door 14, the gaskets vbeing positioned, dimensioned, arranged and designed so that at least one of the gaskets is hollow to accommodate compression closing of the door and to abut one another to provide a temperatureretaining lseal therebetween when the access door 14 is closed and clamped shut by lock 16-18.

Referring to FIGURES 2 and 3, it is seen that the interior of the cabinet part 12 is shaped to define a cooling chamber 24 of the upper level that has two distinct levels with the lower level projecting rearwardly of the upper level. The cooling chamber is bounded by insulated top and bottom walls 26 and 28, by insulated side walls 27 and 29, and by an oiset insulated back wall 30 that includes lower upright back Wall portion 32, an intermediate horizontal portion 33, an upper upright back wall portion 34, and an upper upright wall portion 35, the latter portion being best seen in FIGURE 3` A perforated wall or grill 36, secured to cabinet 12 cooperates with the exterior of walls 26 and 27 to provide flush extensions thereof and cooperates with wall portions 33, 34 and 35 to define a chamber 38 within which is mounted -part of the refrigeration system for the dispenser. The refrigeration components in chamber 38 may include a refrigerant compressor ill and suitable expansion means 41, shown as a capillary tube. The refrigeration system also includes a condenser 42 carried on the rear of the cabinet means in a narrow recess provided for that purpose and an evaporator 43, which is disposed in the cooling chamber 24. The compressor 4t! is preferably supported on the Wall portion 33 by suitable resilient mounting means 44 to reduce transmission of vibrations. The rearward extent of the top and sides of the cabinet including grill 36 is, as best seen in FIGURE 2, suilicient to provide for abutment of the cabinet with an upright wall without damage to the condenser 42 and also leaving an air space for passage of air over the coils of condenser 42. Heated air from condenser 42 and from compressor 4@ may escape through chamber 38 either rearwardly of the cabinet or through grill 36.

The access door I4 comprises an overhanging Ushaped portion 46 which defines a part of the cooling chamber 24 therewithin when the access door is closed, and a vertically disposed portion 48 which closes the bottom portion of chamber 24. The access door is formed from insulated walls similar in construction to the insulated walls of the cabinet. It will be seen in FIGURE 2 that the chamber 24 takes the form of a pair of offset levels when the access door 14 is closed with the upper level projecting forwardly or overhanging the lower level. A pair of valved liquid container means 50 may be stored side by side in the lower portion of the compartment 24. The liquid container means 50 are of such length that they will lie within the lower portion of compartment 24 and not interfere with the closure of the access door 14.

Provided in the compartment 24 to the rear of the lower containers Si, is a condensate receiving container 52 which is preferably constructed of such dimensions that it serves as a means to position a lowermost container 50 in the compartment 24.

The uppermost containers 50 are stored in side-by-side relationship on positioning and guiding means 54, which comprise a plurality of horizontally disposed rack members. The rack members S4 cooperate with complementary guide means or leg members 56 on the bottom of the containers 50 for accurately positioning the liquid containers 52 in the upper portion of the compartment 24 so that the disposable valved discharge cartridges 58 thereof are accurately positioned with respect to control members or valve actuators 66 in the front control wall of the access door.

Valved discharge cartridge 58, which provides both flow control means and a discharge spout 61, is detachably and removably affixed in a laterally-opening discharge aperture in container S for permitting removal of the cartridge from the container so as to facilitate cleaning of all interior surfaces of the container to permit re-use thereof. The flow control means comprise a reciprocable valve stem 59 having a valve 60 aflixed to one end thereof. The valve is biasedI closed by spring 62.

Each valve actuator 66 includes a reciprocable stem slidably mounted in plastic escutcheon or bushing member 68. The actuator registers substantially axially with a valve stem 59 for opening the valve 60 upon actuation of actuator 66 from exteriorly of the access door 14. The discharge spout 61 of valved discharge cartridge S is positioned over a discharge spout or opening 70 in the horizontal discharge wall of access door 14.

When a valve actuator 66 is actuated to open valve 60 of an associated valved discharged cartridge 58, liquid comestible will o'w from container means 50, through the valved discharged cartridge 5S and then discharged through opening 70 into a receptacle, as for example, a glass which may be supported in the service area defined beneath the overhanging portion of the access door. If desired, the receptacle may be positioned beneath a discharge opening 70 on an angle-shaped support shelf 72 which is aflixed by means of suitable fastening means 74 to the vertical portion 48 of the access door. It is seen that spring 62 in valved cartridge 58 will also function to restore actuator 66 to its outermost position upon release thereof.

The horizontally disposed rack means 54 (FIGURES 2 and 3) for accurately positioning the valved cartridge 58 of the liquid container means 50 with respect to both the valve actuator 66 and the discharge opening 70 and for supporting the liquid container means 50 in the upper portion of the compartment 24 comprises a pair of transversely disposed bar members 76 and 7S, which are appropriately supported by the side walls of the container and are adapted to support the rack means 54 within the cabinet means. Supported on the bars or rods 76 and 78 are longitudinally extending rod-like members 79 which comprise an elongated horizontal portion 80 and an upright end portion S1. In use, each liquid container means Sil is inserted into the upper portion of the cooling chamber 24, until the rear of the container abuts the upstanding leg portions 81 of the rack means and with the portions Si? of the elongated bars 79 being cooperative with the depending legs 56 on the associated container 52, for positioning the container transversely in the cooling chamber. The upright leg portions E51 function .as means for limiting the insertion of a container 50 into the cooling chamber.

Referring to FIGURE 3, it is seen that the compressor 40 of the refrigeration system for cooling chamber 24 as well as the condenser 42 lie outside the insulated portion of the cabinet means. Tubular conduits 41 lead from compressor 4t? through wall 35 to the evaporator or cooling plate 43 of the refrigeration system which is supported in the offset space lying to the rear of the liquidy container means in the upper portion of the cooling chamber 24. Fan means 4S are provided in the upper rear portion of the cooling chamber 24 to circulate air from within the cooling chamber over the evaporator 43. This arrangement takes advantage of the natural tendency of cool air to fall, and the air passing over the evaporator 43 is rst directed over the upper container 50. Any condensation from evaporator 43 is caught in an evaporator condensate pan 43' and drained therefrom into the condensate receiving container 52 which is supported on the bottom 28 of the cabinet means within the cooling chamber 24. It will be understood that container 52 may be removed periodically from within the cabinet means and the condensate dumped therefrom.

The refrigerating means are of -conventional design and may vbe electrically energized by appropriate control means to pass vaporous refrigerant through the evaporator coil 43 for cooling the interior of chamber 24.

In FIGURE 4, there is shown a front view of the cabinet means of the liquid dispenser with the front or access door 14 removed. The containers 50, which are stored in the liquid dispenser, are shown in broken lines. Preferably, these valved containers are of the type shown and described in my copending patent application, Serial No. 264,114, tiled March 1l, 1963. The two upper containers 50 are positioned on the support and guide means 54 with the elongated guide means or support legs 56 embracing the outer sides of bars 80 of the supports, thereby locating the uppermost containers 50 so that the valve actuators 66 in door 14 are in alignment with and substantialy coaxial of the valve stems in the discharge cartridges 55. Upon actuation of a valve actuator 66 from exteriorly of the cabinet means, the associated valve stern 59 will be actuated to open valve 60 and liquid may be discharged from the spout 61 of the valved discharge cartridge 58 through the associated discharge opening '70 in the access door 14 into a suitable receptacle. The containers 50 may, for example, contain diiferent comestibles, such as milk in one container and water in another container. A pair of additional storage containers 50 may be stored in the bottom portion of the cooling chamber 24. In the illustrative embodiment of the invention, the liquid dispenser is adapted to contain four two-gallon containers of liquid comestibles.

In FIGURE 5, there is shown a perspective View of a modification of the present invention wherein the cabinet means thereof are designed for only one-half the capacity of the liquid dispenser shown in FIGURES 1-4. The liquid dispenser shown in FIGURE 5, which is simi- 5 lar in concept to the dispenser of FIGURES 1-4, com prises cabinet means including an open-sided cabinet means 112 and an access door 114 closing the open side of the cabinet 112. Gasket means 119 form a temperature retaining seal between the cabinet M2 and the access door 11d. The cooling chamber 24 within the cabinet means is of offset design as in the preferred embodiment of the invention, so that one container 50 may be supported in dispensing position on appropriate support and positioning means 154 in the upper portion of the compartment and a second container Si) for storing a liquid comestible may be contained in the lowcrmost portion of the cooling chamber 321i.

Some of the refrigeration components, the compressor 140 and condenser 142, may be housed in a storage compartment defined in the rear of the cabinet means behind the uppermost container 5G. Discharge line 137 communicates compressor 111i? and condenser 142, The condenser 142 is connected to evaporator M3 by means including capillary tube 141. evaporator 143 to compressor 146. Receptable means may be supported on a shelf 172 beneath the access doors discharge opening for receiving the liquid discharged through a discharge opening upon actuation of the valve actuator 166 in the access door 114. In place of the hn and tube evaporator construction d3 together with fan 45 shown in FlGURE 3, there is preferred to be utilized in the modification of FIGURES 5 and 6 a wrap-around plate-type evaporator construction M3, which, in the form shown in FGURE 6, is a generally U-shaped plate member having appropriate passages therein for evaporating refrigerant. Such plate-type evaporators are of known constructiton. Preferably, because of limited efiiciency of such plate-type coolers, the evaporator 143 eX- tends along the height of sidewalls l2? and 129 and across the top 126 and is located between the rear wall 130 and the forward end of casing H2. Because of the smaller capacity of chamber 24 and the proximity of evaporator 143 to both containers Si), there is no need for a fan for circulating air over the evaporator.

In the construction of the cabinet means 12 and the door means 14, the inner and outer surfaces are of thin skins of sheet metal and the spaces between the skins of sheet metal are filled with expanded polystyrene thereby providing strength While maintaining light weight and good heat insulating characteristics. While the forward edge portions of cabinet 12 and rearward edge portions ot door 14 provide metal skin portions which are continuous both with the inner and outer metal skins, there is no unusual heat loss at these regions because they carry the insulating gaskets 2G and The discharge spout 7@ and the escutcheons 68 and 268, which pass through the walls of the doors, are formed of plastic having low heat conductive characteristics, and the valve actuators 66 and 165 are similarly of plastic to resist heat transfer therethrough. The inner upper edge of spout 7? is of inclined shape as at 7 1, so that the forwardmost portion of spout 76 engages the forward underside of valve cartridge 5S, as best seen in FGURE 2, to further insure alignment and proper discharge of liquid through spout opening 7 9.

Operation To utilize the liquid dispenser, the access door is opened and a filled container 59 of liquid comestible is positioned on the supporting rack means. in the embodiment of FIGURES 1 4, two containers may be placed on the bottom 2S of the cabinet means for storage and precooling, and the two containers from which dispensing is to be effected are properly positioned for dispensing upon the support and guide means 54. in the modified design of FIGURES 5 and 6, one container is supported in dispensing position and one container is stored in the bottom of chamber 124. When the access door is closed, the valve stem of the valved discharge cartridge S8 will be in axial alignment with the valve actuator which ex- Suction line M5 connects tends through the access door. ing of the upper containers 58 by reason of the design herein disclosed, the discharge spout of the valved discharge cartridge will be positioned over a discharge opening in the access door. Upon actuation of the valve actuator, liquid will discharge by gravity through the valve discharge cartridge 58 and through the discharge opening 7) Without any drippage or loss into the refrigerated cooling chamber. When the supply of liquid comestible in one of the upper containers 50 has been exhausted, the access door may be opened and the empty container may be replaced by a full container of cool liquid comestible, which has been stored in the lower portion of the cooling chamber.

rthe present liquid dispenser is compact and provides a unique organization wherein maximum use is made of available cooling chamber capacity commensurate with available countertop area. The dispenser is provided with a cooling chamber which may be maintained at a relatively constant temperature by a refrigeration system which is housed in part in an oiset chamber at the rear of the liquid dispenser. A complementary inset portion or recessed portion provided at the lower front of the liquid dispenser defines a service or dispensing area. A receptacle for receiving the cooled comestible discharged from within the liquid dispenser may be held or supported in said service area beneath the discharge opening formed in the overhanging portion of the access door.

Within the cooling chamber in the cabinet means of the liquid dispenser there are provided guide means, support means, and positioning means, for accurately positioning the valved discharge cartridge of the liquid container means with respect to bot-h the valve actuator located in the access door land the discharge opening in the access door. When the liquid container means is positioned so that it abuts the u-pstanding legs of the longitudinally disposed bars of the rack means and when the depending guide legs on each of the containers are operatively mated with respect to the associated pair of longitudinally disposed bars, then the operator will be certain that the disposable discharge cartridge of the container will be properly positioned.

While one embodiment of the invention has been shown and described herein, it will be understood that it is illustrative only and not to be taken as a definition of the scope of the invention, reference being had for this purpose to the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a dispenser for liquid comestible including means for cooling such liquid comestible and valve means for selectively dispensing same, the improved combination of cabinet means defining an open-sided cooling chamber and a horizontal support for supporting liquid container means thereon, and a selectively openable access door for closing said cooling chamber, said access door having an upright forward control wall and a lower horizontal discharge wall; liquid container means defining a lower support means thereon supported over a major portion of its length on the support in said cooling chamber and -providing a laterally-opening -discharge aperture therein; a valved discharge cartridge providing both flow control means and -a discharge spout therefrom, said ow control means including a reciprocable valve means; and a valve actuator carried in the access door to provide selective control for said valve means from exteriorly of the dispenser when the door is closed, said valve actuator including a reciproeable stem positioned to register substantially axially with said reciprocable valve means, said access door defining a portion of said cooling chamber and being constructed and arranged to receive a forwardly extending portion of the liquid container means, said access door having a discharge opening extending through the lower horizontal discharge wall, said horizontal support comprising a rack for positioning said liquid con- Because of the positiontainer means so that the valved discharge cartridge is (1) positioned for actuation by the valve actuator in the access door and (2) positioned to discharge liquid through the discharge opening in said access door, said rack cooperating with complementary guide means on the liquid container means to provide the required precise positioning of the valved discharge cartridge on the liquid container means with respect to the valve actuator and the discharge opening in the access door.

2. A dispenser of cooled liquid comestible comprising, in combination: a cabinet having top, bottom, rear and side walls defining an open-sided cooling chamber, said rear wall constructed and arranged to form a support area at the rear of said cabinet means insulated from the cooling chamber, said storage area supporting part of the refrigeration system for refrigerating said cooling chamber, a selectively openable access door closing od said chamber, said access door having an overhanging portion at the top thereof which forms a part of said cooling chamber when said access door is closed, there being at least one discharge opening extending through a horizontally disposed wall in said access door and at least one valve actuator slidably carried in an upright wall in said access door, gasket means between said door and said cabinet providing a temperature-retaining seal therebetween, at least one liquid container positioned in said cooling chamber at an attitude to have liquid selectively drained therefrom, valved discharge means affixed to said liquid container for regulating the discharge of liquid from said container, said discharge means including a movable valve member and a discharge spout; and rack means in said cabinet for supporting a major portion of said liquid container and positioning said liquid container in the upper portion of said cooling chamber, with the remainder of said liquid container carrying said valved discharge means projecting forwardly of said cabinet means into said overhanging portion of said access door, so that when the access door is closed, the discharge spout is positioned over the discharge opening in the access door and the valve member is positioned closely adjacent to and in register with the valve actuator in the access door, said rack means including means for limiting the rearward insertion of a liquidcontainer into the cooling chamber and means cooperating with a liquid container for accurately positioning the liquid container transversely in the cooling chamber.

3. A dispenser of cooled liquid comestibles from valved containers comprising in combination: cabinet means defining an open-sided cavity, there being support means associated with said cavity to generally diyvide said cavity into upper and lower regions of substantially the same minimum height adapted to receive therein a plurality of similarly dimensioned valved containers for comestibles, the unobstructed length of the lower region of the cavity being such as to substantially completely receive therein one of said comestible containers, the unobstructed length of the upper region of the cavity being such as to receive therein only a major portion of a comestible container with the remain-der of said container carrying the valved discharge means therefor projecting forwardly of the cabinet means; a door for closing the open side of said cabinet means and being shaped to define an upright forward control wall and a horizontal lower discharge wall which cooperate to define, in part, an upper recess for receiving thereinto the remainder of a container projecting forwardly of the cabinet means, control means on said upright control wall for selectively actuating a valved discharge means on a container positioned in the upper region of said dispenser, and discharge spout means on said discharge wall for receiving comestible discharged from a valved discharge means within the dispenser; and refrigeration means for cooling the cavities defined by the cabinet means and door.

4. A dispenser as in claim 3 wherein said support means include guide means which cooperate with complementary cooperating means on said container for accurately positioning the container so that the valved discharge means will be actuated by said control means and the valved discharge means will discharge comestible directly into the discharge spoilt means.

S. A dispenser as in claim 3 wherein the rear wall of the cabinet means is stepped and part of the refrigeration means is supported on said stepped portion of the cabinet means.

6. A dispenser of cooled liquid comestibles for valved containers comprising in combination: cabinet means defining an open-sided cavity, there being support means associated with said cavity to generally divi-de said cavity into upper and lower regions of substantially the same minimum height adapted to receive therein a plurality of similarly dimensioned valved containers for comestibles, the unobstructed length of the lower region of the cavity being such as to substantially completely receive therein one of said comestible containers, the unobstructed length of the upper region of the cavity being such as to receive therein only a major portion of a comestible container with the remainder of said container carrying the valved discharge means therefor projecting forwardly of the cabinet means; a door for closing the open side of said cabinet means and being shaped to define an upright forward control wall and a horizontal lower discharge wall which cooperate to define, in part, an upper recess for receiving thereinto the remainder of a container projecting forwardly of the cabinet means, control means on said upright control Wall for selectively actuating a valved discharge means on a container positioned in the upper region of said dispenser, said control means including a reciprocable stem movably carried in said upright control wall, said valved discharge means including a movable valve member, said reciprocable stem being positioned to register substantially axially with said valve member, and discharge spout means on said discharge wall for receiving comestible discharged from said valved discharge means within the dispenser.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,163,491 6/1939 Kauffman 222-130 2,274,409 2/1942 Harbison 222-183 2,718,985 9/1955 Tamminga 222-131 X 2,764,324 9/1956 Landreth 222-501 2,781,153 2/1957 Roberts 222-146 X 2,808,185 10/1957 Norris et al 222-131 X 2,872,078 2/1959 Kennedy 222-131 RAPHAEL M. LUPO, Primary Examiner, 

1. IN A DISPENSER FOR LIQUID COMESTIBLE INCLUDING MEANS FOR COOLING SUCH LIQUID COMESTIBLE AND VALVE MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY DISPENSING SAME, THE IMPROVED COMBINATION OF: CABINET MEANS DEFINING AN OPEN-SIDED COOLING CHAMBER AND A HORIZONTAL SUPPORT FOR SUPPORTING LIQUID CONTAINER MEANS THEREON, AND A SELECTIVELY OPENABLE ACCESS DOOR FOR CLOSING SAID COOLING CHAMBER, SAID ACCESS DOOR HAVING AN UPRIGHT FORWARD CONTROL WALL AND A LOWER HORIZONTAL DISCHARGE WALL; LIQUID CONTAINER MEANS DEFINING A LOWER SUPPORT MEANS THEREON SUPPORTED OVER A MAJOR PORTION OF ITS LENGTH ON THE SUPPORT IN SAID COOLING CHAMBER AND PROVIDING A LATERALLY-OPENING DISCHARGE APERTURE THEREIN; A VALVED DISCHARGE CARTRIDGE PROVIDING BOTH FLOW CONTROL MEANS AND A DISCHARGE SPOUT THEREFROM, SAID FLOW CONTROL, MEANS INCLUDING A RECIPROCABLE VALVE MEANS; AND A VALVE ACTUATOR CARRIED IN THE ACCESS DOOR TO PROVIDE SELECTIVE CONTROL FOR SAID VAVLE MEANS FROM EXTERIORLY OF THE DISPENSER WHEN THE DOOR IS CLOSED, SAID VALVE ACTUATOR INCLUDING A RECIPROCABLE STEM POSITIONED TO REGISTER SUBSTANTIALLY AXIALLY WITH SAID RECIPROCABLE VALVE MEANS, SAID ACCESS DOOR DEFINING A PORTION OF SAID COOLING CHAMBER AND BEING CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED TO RECEIVE A FORWARDLY EXTENDING PORTION OF THE LIQUID CONTAINER MEANS, SAID ACCESS DOOR HAVING A DISCHARGE OPENING EXTENDING THROUGH THE LOWER HORIZONTAL DISCHARGE WALL, SAID HORIZONTAL SUPPORT COMPRISING A RACK FOR POSITIONING SAID LIQUID CONTAINER MEANS SO THAT THE VALVED DISCHARGE CARTRIDGE IS (1) POSITIONED FOR ACTUATION BY THE VALVE ACTUATOR IN THE ACCESS DOOR AND (2) POSITIONED TO DISCHARGE LIQUID THROUGH THE DISCHARGE OPENING IN SAID ACCESS DOOR, SAID RACK COOPERATING WITH COMPLEMENTARY GUIDE MEANS ON THE LIQUID CONTAINER MEANS TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED PRECISE POSITIONING OF THE VALVED DISCHARGE CARTRIDGE ON THE LIQUID CONTAINER MEANS WITH RESPECT TO THE VALVE ACTUATOR AND THE DISCHARGE OPENING IN THE ACCESS DOOR. 